Like a portentous cloud surcharged with irresistible storm and ruin, it seems to fill the whole heavens, making me painfully conscious how unequal to the occasion I am,--how unequal, also, is all that I can say to all that I feel.
He uses a vivid metaphor to convey his feelings of inadequacy in addressing a monumental issue.
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